CCleaner

How to uninstall CCleaner from your computer

This web page contains detailed information on how to uninstall CCleaner for Windows. The Windows release was developed by Piriform. Take a look here where you can get more info on Piriform. Usually the CCleaner program is installed in the C:\Program Files\CCleaner folder, depending on the user's option during setup. You can uninstall CCleaner by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\CCleaner\uninst.exe. Note that you might be prompted for admin rights. CCleaner's main file takes about 7.05 MB (7394584 bytes) and is called CCleaner64.exe.

CCleaner installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 12.43 MB (13038968 bytes) on disk.

CCleaner.exe (5.24 MB)

CCleaner64.exe (7.05 MB)

uninst.exe (150.82 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 5.01 of CCleaner. You can find below info on other application versions of CCleaner:

How to remove CCleaner from your computer with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

CCleaner is a program marketed by the software company Piriform. Frequently, people want to remove it. Sometimes this is difficult because doing this by hand takes some knowledge regarding Windows internal functioning. One of the best EASY procedure to remove CCleaner is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:

1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your system, install it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and general tool to maximize the performance of your PC.

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of features available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools category

4. Click on the Uninstall Programs button

5. All the programs installed on your computer will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you locate CCleaner or simply click the Search feature and type in "CCleaner". If it is installed on your PC the CCleaner program will be found automatically. After you click CCleaner in the list of programs, some data regarding the application is available to you:

Star rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other people have regarding CCleaner, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".

Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.

Details regarding the app you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove CCleaner.

8. After uninstalling CCleaner, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to proceed with the cleanup. All the items of CCleaner which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing CCleaner with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your system.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove CCleaner by Piriform from your PC, nor are we saying that CCleaner by Piriform is not a good application for your PC. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to remove CCleaner in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.